Appointment of Dr. Erik Mitchell as
the Audrey Geisel
University Librarian

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Erik Mitchell, Ph.D. as
the Audrey Geisel University Librarian, effective April 16, 2018.

In this crucial role, Dr. Mitchell will report directly to the Executive
Vice Chancellor-Academic Affairs, serve as a member of the Academic
Senate, and work closely with the campus administration, the faculty,
and colleagues throughout the University of California in planning and
implementing the goals of the University Library. The University
Librarian serves UC San Diego's faculty, students, staff and greater
community by providing information resources, services, and spaces that
support the diverse teaching, research, creative endeavors, and public
service programs of the UC San Diego community.

Dr. Mitchell is currently the Associate University Librarian of Digital
Initiatives and Collaborative Services, Associate Chief Information
Officer, and Director of the Northern Regional Library Facility at UC
Berkeley where he has served since 2013. A Senior Fellow at the Berkeley
Institute for Data Science, Dr. Mitchell's research focuses on the role
of information design, technology, and literacy in empowering and
shaping information communities. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, he served
as an Assistant Professor and Senior Research Fellow with the
Information Policy and Access Center (iPAC) at the University of
Maryland, College Park, and as an Assistant Director for Technology
Services at Wake Forest University's Z. Smith Reynolds Library. He holds
a Ph.D. in Information and Library Science from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.

At UC Berkeley, Dr. Mitchell has worked with various leadership teams to
advance the mission of the University, drawing on principles of service,
shared values, and collaboration. He has advocated for and led a charge
to incorporate preferred name services into the campus' library systems,
worked with vendors and systemwide colleagues to select a digital
imaging platform that is ADA compliant, and established processes to
ensure that all new programs and services include diversity, equity, and
inclusion considerations at the design and decision-making stages. He
has co-led the creation of programs for research data management, the
expansion of targeted and mass digitization programs, and comprehensive
computing services for students. Additionally, he has been integral to
cross-institutional and nationally shared print initiatives and has
served as co-principal investigator on funded research and development
activities.

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Mitchell to UC San Diego and in
congratulating him on his appointment as UC San Diego's University
Librarian. He is passionate about education and student success,
believes library space can create transformative experiences, and sees
many opportunities to partner with schools, academic departments, and
the Teaching + Learning Commons, among others, in new ways that enable
student achievement. We look forward to his leadership of the UC San
Diego Library, which is widely recognized as one of the top academic
libraries in the nation. Please also join us in recognizing Tammy Nickelson Dearie, Associate
University Librarian for Enterprise Services, for her exemplary service
as Interim University Librarian throughout the past year. She has kept
important renovation and advancement projects moving forward smoothly,
and her attention to student and faculty needs has been outstanding.